All you need to know about the music business
Donald S. Passman; illustrations by Randy Glass
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Edition:
- 8th ed., Free Press hardcover ed.
- Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2012
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- Summary:
- Through seven editions and twenty years, All You Need to Know About the Music Industry has been the essential go-to reference for music business pros--musicians, songwriters, entertainment lawyers, agents, concert promoters, music publishers, record company execs, and music managers--as they try to navigate the rapid transformation of their industry. Now in its eighth edition--revised and updated with crucial information on the industry's major changes in response to rapid technological advances and economic uncertainty, this book is still the definitive, essential guide to the music industry. Author Donald Passman, one of the most influential figures in the business, has been in the thick of this transformation and understands that anyone involved in the music business is feeling the deep, far-reaching effects of it. Drawing on his unique professional experience as one of the most trusted advisors in the business, Passman offers authoritative information on assembling a winning team of advisors, negotiating deals, music publishing and copyrights, new digital streaming services, and much more. The new edition includes up-to-date information on the new business models, including music streaming services and cloud lockers; developments in new legislation and industry-wide deals concerning piracy and digital rights; new challenges in performing rights; and updated numbers and statistics for the traditional industry. This book, called 'the industry bible' by the Los Angeles Times, is a comprehensive guide to the legal and financial aspects of the music world--an indispensable tool that no one who makes their living from music can afford to be without. -- from publisher description
- Table of Contents:
- 1. First step
- Pt. I, Your team of advisors:
- 2. How to pick a team:
- Getting your team together
- Business philosophy
- Hiring a team
- Changing a team member
- Cocktail party talk
- 3. Personal managers:
- Role
- Commission overview
- Negotiating the manager's deal
- Picking the right manager
- 4. Business managers:
- Role
- How to pick a business manager
- Business manager checklist
- Fees
- Your half of the job
- 5. Attorneys:
- Picking a lawyer
- Fees
- Conflicts of interest
- Attorney checklist
- 6. Agents:
- Role
- Fees
- Deal points
- Picking an agent.
- Pt. II, Record deals:
- 7. Broad-strokes overview of the record business:
- Industry structure
- A word about retailers
- Do you need a record label?
- What's a record?
- Masters
- Royalty computation
- Ye olde royalty calculations
- 8. Advances and recoupment:
- Advances : the basic concept
- Cross-collateralization
- 9. Real-life numbers:
- Overview
- Royalties
- Advances
- 360 Rights
- Look how much you already know
- 10. Other major deal points:
- Amount of product
- How long?
- Delivery requirements
- Controlled compositions
- Greatest hits
- Live albums
- Guaranteed release
- Independents day
- 11. Producer and mixer deals:
- What's a producer?
- Royalties
- Advances
- Other royalty computations
- Who hires the producer?
- A major point, pay attention
- Mixers
- 12. Advanced royalty computations:
- Distribution methods
- Royalties for the United States
- Foreign royalties
- Reserve limitations
- SoundScan
- Master licenses
- Electronic transmissions, including digital downloads, digital streaming, and things that go bump in the night
- Coupling and compilations
- Joint recordings
- "Greatest hits" albums
- Multiple albums
- Box sets
- Television advertising
- DVDs and other home video devices
- Mid-price records
- Budget records
- New and developing artist prices
- Record clubs
- Cutouts, deletes, scraps, and other food for bottom feeders
- Premiums
- Video games
- DART, digital performance, and webcasting monies
- Foreign public performance of masters
- Accountings
- 13. Advanced record deal points:
- Advanced demo deal negotiation
- Exclusivity
- Videos
- Independent promotion
- Merchandising rights
- Tour support
- Territory
- Union per-record charges
- Album cover artwork
- Creative, marketing, and other controls
- 14. Loan-out, independent production, label, and distribution deals:
- Loan-out deals
- Independent production agreements
- Joint ventures
- Pressing and distribution (P&D) deals
- Upstream deals.
- Pt. III, Songwriting and music publishing:
- 15. Copyright basics:
- Basic copyright concepts
- What are all these rights you get?
- Exceptions to the copyright monopoly
- Compulsory mechanical licenses
- 16. Publishing companies and major income sources:
- Publishing overview
- Sources of income
- Mechanical royalties
- Controlled composition clauses
- Maximum rate per song
- Maximum rate per album
- Public-performance royalties
- 17. Secondary publishing income:
- Printed music
- Synchronization and transcription licenses
- Electronic transmissions, including digital downloads, ring tones, Webcasting, subscription services, and podcasting
- Foreign subpublishing
- DART monies (Audio Home Recording Act of 1992)
- Bonus section!:
- How to set up a publishing company
- 18. Songwriter deals:
- Songwriter royalties
- Standard contracts
- Performance monies
- Printed music royalties
- DART, Webcasting, and interactive streaming monies
- Advances
- Term songwriter agreements
- Pop quiz
- Collaboration (two or more songwriters)
- Creative control
- Reversion of copyright
- 19. Copublishing and administration deals:
- Copublishing deals
- Administration agreements
- Now look where you are!
- 20. Advanced copyright concepts:
- Who owns the copyright?
- Works for hire
- Duration of copyright
- Right of termination
- Digital performance of masters and Webcasting
- 21. Even more advanced copyright concepts:
- I got you twenty, babe
- How to terminate a copyright transfer in your spare time, for fun and profit
- Extension rights
- Digital samples
- Sound recording copyrights
- The copyright notice
- Registration and deposit
- What you get when someone rips off your copyright.
- Pt. IV, Group issues
- 22. Groups:
- Group provisions in record deals
- Trivia quiz
- Internal group deals
- What's in a name?
- Pt. V, Touring
- 23. Personal appearances, touring:
- Roles of team members
- Marketing
- Personal appearance deals
- New artists
- Midlevel artists
- Heritage acts
- Superstar touring
- Hall fees
- Riders
- I'll take the whole thing...
- Lining your pockets with more gold.
- Pt. VI, Merchandising:
- 24. Tour merchandising:
- Merchandisers
- Royalties
- Hall fees
- Advances
- Term
- Advance repayment
- Performance minimum
- Exclusivity
- Creative control
- Sell-off rights
- Bootleggers
- 25. Retail merchandising:
- Royalties
- Other deal points
- Caution.
- Pt. VII. Classical music:
- 26. Classical music:
- Term and product
- Royalties
- Advances
- Mechanical royalties
- Marketing tie-ins.
- Pt. VIII, Motion picture music:
- 27. Overview of motion picture music:
- Introduction
- One song, eight deals
- The rights involved
- 28. Performer deals:
- Overview
- Performance in the film (no record rights)
- Record rights to film performances
- 29. Film songwriter deals:
- Terminology
- Deal points
- 30. Composer agreements:
- Deal points
- Package deals
- Creative financing
- Television composers
- Video game composers
- 31. Licensing existing recordings and existing songs for motion pictures:
- Master licenses
- Licensing existing musical compositions for films
- Film music quiz
- 32. Music supervisors:
- Role
- Fees and royalties
- Television supervisors
- 33. Soundtrack album deals:
- Score albums
- Song albums
- Cost covering
- Other issues.
- Author/Creator:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
Includes index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
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- text file
- Call Numbers:
- ML3790 .P35 2012eb
- ISBNs:
- 0795333129 (electronic bk.)
9780795333125 (electronic bk.)
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1451682468 (hbk.) [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 850178367
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- EBC3031875 (source: MiAaPQ)